In the course of responding to environmental
hazards, the services of several professionals may be required.

Inspectors & Assessors

Remediators& Abatement Companies

Health and Wellness
Professionals

Indoor Air Equipment
Providers

Insurance Professionals

Legal Professionals

As qualified professionals are found, they may
be listed on the www.EnviroSpect.info website. Finding people who can help you can
be time consuming. If you ask, we will help you find professionals in your
area.

Mold Testers

Though mold is the most
often tested environmental hazard, it is not the only hazard that should
concern us. Many testers have limited training in that their role is simply the
technical process of taking swabs of spots of mold or air samples. Their job
ends with providing the data from the lab. Environmental Inspectors and
testers, as described below, usually perform site assessment to find sources of
moisture and recommends the appropriate tests. The most common environmental
issue is mold, but many other contaminations exist.

Environmental
Inspectors & Assessors

We suggest utilizing
certified indoor air professionals that are trained to test for and identify
the full range of environmental issues. Envirospect professionals have
identified pesticides, mold, Legionella, formaldehyde, asbestos, allergens, VOC’s and a
host of other contaminants in homes, businesses, schools, municipal buildings
and many other properties.

Health & Wellness
Professionals

We have found some very qualified professionals
to determine sensitivities to mold and other environmental hazards. Two common
medical professionals specialties for mold, allergen and other environmental
illness symptoms include allergists and pulmonologists. Internists and general
practitioners are often key to discovering environmental health issues. With modern heating systems along with “energy
saving” house conditions we have seen contaminations form formaldehyde,
pesticides, Legionella, VOC’s and many other sources.We have also found Chiropractors as well as
Physicians that excel at determining MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Syndrome.

Certified Mold Remediators
Vs Environmental Abatement Professionals

Certified Mold
Remediators clean up mold by mold removal. Some mold remediators stop sources
of moisture and remodel the house when mold remediation is complete. There is a
significant difference between abilities and approaches to environmental
hazards. The term "remediation" is generally used to identify the
process of removing or cleaning the hazard. "Abatement" is a term
generally used to refer to including removing the cause or source of the
contamination as well as cleaning the environmental hazard. We have come across
many “Spray and Pray” professionals. Guess what….if the source of a
contamination of any environmental type is not corrected, it will return. It is
a simply science experiment. Same conditions lead to same result.Envirospect has been called many times to
address “sourcing” issues after a previous remediation has been preformed and
paid for only to have the issue return.

Radon, Lead, Asbestos
and other Environmental Hazard RemediatorsEach of the
environmental hazards takes special training, equipment and license to properly
clean up or remove. As with above, the cause of a contamination needs addressed
and corrected or the remediation is a waste of time and money.

HVAC ( Heating, Ventilating and Air
Conditioner ) Professionals

Each home, business, school, health care
facility or office has its own unique set of conditions. Improper installation
or maintenance account for a significant portion of the environmental hazards
in buildings. More importantly, HVAC, air cleaning, dilution or disinfection
are a prime component of correcting environmental risks and hazards. Too many
HVAC professionals address the temperature aspect of a building and not the
health of the air environment. For some types of contamination, dilution
systems such as HRV or ERV units are the answer and others may require
filtration systems. The contamination source and internal negative air
conditions need considered. As an example, separate negative air systems may be
proper to allow a main house HVAC system not to pull contaminations into a
living space.

Legal Professionals

To support insurance
claims or deal with defective construction or negligent contaminations a legal
professional may need consulted. We have
seen coverage for environmental issues that was originally denied actually be
covered after review of the contract and conditions of the denied claim.

Insurance Adjusters

Many companies have
mold coverage. This is more often true when a claim that is covered as a
casualty loss is the cause of an environmental problem. We have found that
reading you own insurance policy is a very wise thing to do.

Public Adjusters

Public Adjusters are experts on
property loss adjustment who are retained by policy holders to assist in
preparing, filing and adjusting insurance claims. Employed exclusively by a
policyholder who has sustained an insured loss, these professionals manage
every detail of the claim, working closely with the insured to provide the most
equitable and prompt settlement possible. A Public Adjuster inspects the loss
site immediately, analyzes the damages, assembles claim support data, reviews
the insured's coverage, determines current replacement costs and exclusively
serves the client, not the insurance company. That is the person to call when a
claim is improperly denied.